When, in the 1941 Humphrey Bogart movie The Maltese Falcon, private investigator Sam Spade’s partner is murdered, the landscape of Sam’s work changes.
When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it.
This is the …
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